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Spanish America is by definition a region totally changed by Europeans. The Spanish and their language are European. The Spanish language and culture was imposed, usually with great brutality, on the inhabitants of what became Spanish America, after the Spanish had destroyed the original languages, religions and cultures, and imposed themselves as masters over the native Indian inhabitants, who were enslaved or made serfs by the Spanish after the Spanish Conquest. This has affected Latin American society for five centuries, down to the present. The creation of Spanish America from the indigenous civilizations (Inca, Aztec, etc) may be the greatest cultural genocide in modern history. Its success can be seen by the way many descendants of Indios regard Spanish as their original native language. It is not. It is the language of the European conqueror and colonizer.
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What were Spanish towns in America?
spanish towns in America
Why did the Spanish establish colonies in the Americas long before other European?
The Spanish discovered America, so for a time they were the only ones in Europe that even knew it was there. That, and the fact that everyone else was too busy fighting with each other to worry about what Spain was doing.
What is the name and location of the oldest European settlement in North America?
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic is the oldest European city in North America. It was founded by Columbus' brother in 1508. It served as the centre for Spanish tyrrany, conquest and extermination of the indigenous people for a century and as the first terminus of the slave ships thereafter. It is a beautiful city whose history is steeped in blood.
The horse was brought to north America by which explorers?
spanish
Nature of economy in spanish America?
had a senceof fasion
